Science: Coronary heart disease linked to common bacteria A bacterium which can grow in blood vessels may contribute to coronary heart disease by blocking the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, say researchers. A quarter of deaths in Britain are due to coronary heart disease. Charlotte Gaydos and her colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and the … News
Every lab for itself - America's big nine national laboratories flourished during the Cold War. But with communism no longer perceived as a threat, they are scrabbling to find new roles News
A matter of degrees WHAT'S THE best formula for allocating funds for buildings and equipment to support university research? This question is exercising the minds of those holding the purse strings in Canberra. Most of the answers that are being considered - such as rewarding universities who produce the highest number of people with research degrees - favour the … Opinion
Take a handful: Building the Large Hadron Collider A recipe. Build two pipes, each about 6 centimetres wide and 27 kilometres long. Bend them both into a circle and cool to 1.9 kelvin, about 300 °C below room temperature. Fill with protons – about a hundred billion of them to start with – all travelling as close to the speed of light as … Features
Forum: The disappearing dons - Jim Baggott regrets the days of the rare scholarly character are numbered I suppose if they were some rare form of wildlife, David Attenborough would by now have made a documentary about their plight. He would have explained how these quite remarkable creatures have been driven almost to extinction by unnatural changes wreaked upon their natural habitat. Another case of man's inhumanity to all things that crawl … Forum
Forum: In search of the best person for the job - Adrian Furnham puts psychometrics to the test Forum
Feedback America's biggest biotechnology company, Genentech, has put the BBC to shame by introducing benefits for 'same-sex domestic partners' - that's partners of gay employees to you and me. Thanks to outrage from a number of backbench Tory MPs with 'traditional' values, the BBC recently pulled the plug on special, one-off payments for staff who marry. … Regulars